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Friday, October 31, 2014

Remembering The Editor in Chief - David Moody

David Moody - Always on the job as the Editor of the MI Chess Mag

This game was played at the Cadillac Open in early November
of 1996. It was published in the Michigan Chess magazine in December of that
year. The game was annotated by state chess legend and Michigan Chess Hall of
Fame member David Moody.

Mr. Moody tirelessly and selfishly work as the Editor for
Michigan Chess for many years and spent countless hours going over games played
at every Michigan tournament and tournaments groups of Michigan players
attended – such as a US Open or Midwest Class Championship.

David always did a great job commentating and analyzing the
games – all without the aid of chess software I have to cheat with today. I
miss his great writing style to this day. I had the thrill of having him annotate and publish a little over a half dozen of my games. They were mostly losses - but at least he deemed them print worthy, and that was a compliment in itself I felt.

I will let Mr. Moody take over the commentary on this game. Any comments I add will
be in [brackets]. Enjoy.

“With a rating difference in the 700-800 point range, you
wouldn’t expect much out of the games in round 1 or a Swiss Open tournament.
There were some moments of interest in this one however:

Mike Nikitin (1528)vs Eric Ronneberg (2252) – Grunfeld Defense – D93

1.d4Nf6

2.c4g6

3.Nc3Bg7

4.Nf3O-O

5.Bf4d5

6.e3c5

7.Nb5Na6

Forcing the Black knight to a bad square, but not really a
move in the spirit of the position, as it releases a lot of pressure on Black’s
somewhat rickity center. And of course there are the usual clichés about not
moving a piece twice in the opening.

8.a3Bg4

9.Be2dxc4

10.Bxc4cxd4

11.Nbxd4Nd5

With pressure on the long diagonal [a1-h8], not to mention
the threatened advance of the e-pawn.

12.Bg3e5[?]

White to move......and blunder on lucky #13.

[The position was (-.3) but is now EVEN. Igor3000 says
12…..Rc8! 13. Rc1, Bxf3 14.gxf3 is better for Black (-.9). But White blunders
right back. 13. Nb5, e414. Qxd5,
exf315. O-Ofxg2 16. Qxg2 was the correct way to relieve
the pin. Instead of (=) it’s now Black (-2) after the next move.

The Swiss System has various functions, outside of the
obvious one of allowing a tournament to accommodate a large group of players in
a small number of rounds.

Journalists who must decipher score sheets for publication
have long noted that a Swiss System always seems to pair ‘good handwriting’
players together and ‘bad handwriting’ players together, ensuring that we never
get to see all of the good games – only half.

Another traditional function of the Swiss System seems to
take players that traveled together a long distance to attend the tournament -
and play each other frequently at home – and pair them in the 1st
round. The farther away you live from the tournament site, the more likely it
is that this will happen.”

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By the way, this was not an obit column. David attended the latest Michigan Open. He just retired after many years of great service as the Editor of Michigan Chess. This was a thanks for a job well done for years!

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